FRANCE: Christian & the Serpent

Feather and the Salmon, a fairy tale written
some years ago by Christian Pineau, now France's Foreign Minister,
tells of a little boy who is carried on a salmon's back to an island
inhabited only by birds and a man-eating serpent. The boy, undismayed
at the sight of the bones of previous victims, succeeds in establishing
good relations with the serpent.

With all the other reading they have to do, it is unlikely that any of
the shapers of U.S. foreign policy ever took time out to read Feather
and the Salmon. Last...